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As a result, large – and potentially unsustainable – stocks of private and public debt remain.
Third, China has had to rely on another round of monetary, fiscal, and credit stimulus to prop up an unbalanced and unsustainable growth model based on excessive exports and fixed investment, high saving, and low consumption.
But a chronic current account deficit is unsound, unfair, and unsustainable in the long run.
Lax financing conditions may prevail for quite a long time, but, sooner or later, growing external and fiscal deficits become unsustainable; confidence evaporates and investors flee, taking their liquidity with them.
Credit expansion must now be followed by a period of contraction, because some of the new credit instruments and practices are unsound and unsustainable.
During the emergency period, fiscal retrenchment and austerity are unavoidable; but, in the longer term, the debt burden will become unsustainable without growth – and so will the European Union itself.
His starting point is the huge rise in wealth among the world’s richest 0.1% and 0.01% and the consequent pressure for people, governments, and companies to take on increasingly unsustainable levels of debt.
Add to that the more than 73 million individual sharks that are already lost annually, and the situation is clearly unsustainable.
The practical and inescapable lesson is that when any country is left to its own policy devices, its preferences may lead to prolonged and ultimately unsustainable imbalances.
So what’s unsustainable?
He would acknowledge that Russia’s current political model is unsustainable, and convene a “roundtable” of representatives from around the country to come up with a framework for a new system.
Each, indeed, is unsustainable without the other.
But improvisation is simply unsustainable in the long run.
The more the scheme was exposed as unsustainable, the more doggedly officials clung to it – and the more optimistic their narratives.
Given a lower growth rate, China’s fiscal position will deteriorate – gradually at first, and then rapidly – with the public debt/GDP ratio eventually rising to an unsustainable level.
The commonwealth’s debt position is clearly unsustainable, and its economy will be able to recover only if it gets a fresh start.
On the contrary, the debt position will become even more unsustainable.
Not only is it becoming increasingly obvious that GDP-directed development is ecologically unsustainable; survey research shows that it is no longer improving well-being and happiness in developed countries.
Worse still, economic growth based on exports of natural resources has proved unsustainable.
Surely, at some point those numbers become unsustainable.
Meanwhile the market is mispricing perennial structural challenges, in particular mounting and unsustainable global debt and a dim fiscal outlook, particularly in the US, where the price of this recovery is a growing deficit.
Africa’s geographical position, sensitive water resources, unsustainable agricultural methods, and exploitation by foreign and other private companies increased its vulnerability.
By extending too much of this type of credit, banks pump up asset prices to unsustainable levels.
In 2004-2007, I considered that I might be wrong about a relatively rapid resolution to the world’s economic distress: as the late Rudi Dornbusch put it, unsustainable macroeconomic imbalances can sustain themselves longer than economists (with their touching faith in rational human decision making) believe is possible.
If you had asked me a year ago whether a year could pass without either a restoration of confidence in financial institutions or widespread nationalizations and liquidations, I would have said no.Unstable and unsustainable configurations must come to an end.
In countries such as Spain and Ireland, private debts grew to unsustainable levels.
The more aggressively the Italian government, for example, cuts expenditure or increases taxation, the more its public-debt burden – already above 130% of GDP – will likely grow to unsustainable levels.
As it stands, the Arab world is stuck between an unsustainable economic and political status quo and the inclusive, merit-based economic system that less myopic people in the region know must replace it.
Its leaders can begin fighting the cancer of an unsustainable status quo, with all the pain and uncertainty that such a struggle entails; or they can wait for the cancer to become a terminal condition, and be devoured by it.
The resulting build-up of private and public debt in over-spending countries became unmanageable when housing bubbles burst (Ireland and Spain) and current-account deficits, fiscal gaps, or both became unsustainable throughout the eurozone's periphery.
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